U.S. Police Routinely Travel to Israel to Learn Methods of Brutality and Repression

When McKinney, TX police officer David Eric Casebolt brutally took down a teenage girl at a pool party in June, he was using a form of martial arts called Krav Maga in which he trained exclusively. These combat techniques were developed by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).

This is a small reflection of a larger reality that exists in U.S. law enforcement, one that helps explain the brutality and militarization that now characterizes so many police forces. Since 9/11, cops have been traveling abroad to learn from one of the most repressive and dangerous State forces in the world today—the Israeli military and intelligence apparatus.

Political commentator John Miranda recently stated that police brutality is directly linked to the training some officers receive in Israel.

“As for the increase in police brutality within the United States, I think this definitely can be pointed towards the Israeli training that the Department of Homeland Security is giving all of American police officers.

Some police officers are actually being flown to Israel for the training, not all of them but some, and then those that are flown to Israel, they come back home and they train the head officers in the training that they’ve gotten in Israel.

All these incidents, it is not just happening to African Americans. Police are literally being brutal with all Americans.”

At least 300 high-ranking U.S. sheriffs and police from all over the country, as well as FBI and US Customs and Border Protection agents, have traveled to Israel to learn first-hand the most efficient means of subduing populations. The purported reason is counterterrorism, but protests and crowd control methods are commonly discussed.

Police are not learning from the Israeli criminal law sector that deals with Jewish residents. U.S. police are learning from Israel’s military justice system, which controls Palestinians through paramilitary and counterinsurgency tactics. Residents of Gaza and the West Bank live in what is essentially a giant prison camp, where oppression and brutality from the IDF is a way of life. The use of excessive or deadly force for crowd control is rarely questioned.

Three organizations are responsible for sending U.S. cops to Israel for training—the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the American Jewish Committee’s Project Interchange and the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs. The ADL insulted victims of police brutality last month when it honored the St. Louis Police Department (SLPD) just days ahead of the anniversary of Michael Brown’s killing. The SLPD was the first department to enroll in ADL’s training program.

The St. Louis Chapter of Jewish Voices for Peace issued a scathing statement in response: “We have cringed as the ADL positions itself locally as a champion of racial profiling legislation while sending US police – including former St. Louis County Police Chief Tim Fitch – to train on population control in Israel, an apartheid police state with more than 60 years of sophisticated expertise in racial profiling, mass incarceration, settler colonialism, and ethnic cleansing targeting the non-Jewish indigenous Palestinian people.”

This occupation-style policing has made its way to U.S. cities and towns and has become standard operating procedure at any protest of government. Also, the very same equipment used by Israeli military for crowd control—tear gas grenades, triple chaser gas canisters, and stun grenades—were used at demonstrations in Ferguson, Oakland and Anaheim. The LRAD (long-range acoustic device) was also used by both Ferguson police and Israeli military forces.

Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said professor of modern Arab studies at Columbia University, notes how militarized U.S. police reflect the training that is received in Israel and spread throughout the ranks.

“If American police and sheriffs consider they’re in occupation of neighborhoods like Ferguson and East Harlem, this training is extremely appropriate – they’re learning how to suppress a people, deny their rights and use force to hold down a subject population.”

To complement this Israeli military training that ramped up in the mid-2000s, the Pentagon and Homeland Security started the 1033 program which funneled billions of dollars of military-grade equipment to local law enforcement. MRAPS and military weapons have become all too familiar on American streets.

What order-following, state-sanctioned thug is going to refuse the most advanced tactics and tool of repression?

Shakeel Syed, executive director of the Islamic Shura Council of Southern California, described how U.S. police tactics are “a near replica” of Israeli military crowd control tactics.

“Whether it is in Ferguson or L.A., we see a similar response all the time in the form of a disproportionate number of combat-ready police with military gear who are ready to use tear gas at short notice. Whenever you find 50 people at a demonstration, there is always a SWAT team in sight or right around the corner.”

This increasingly common scenario is indicative of law enforcement that views the populace as the enemy. Peaceful protests of unjust government practices are fundamental to the progression of society. Police with militarized tactics and gear are the progenitors of violence.

Jimmy Johnson of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions explains how the training of U.S. law enforcement by Israeli military represents a grave threat to the idea of democracy.

“Israeli methods are sought out and adopted for their perceived quality, largely led by the government’s marketing of them. But the relationships established between agencies of order, whether they be drug enforcement, civil policing, customs officials, tactical police units or any other, are done entirely outside the democratic realm…This is the danger of agencies of authority going through processes of professionalization and integration with their foreign counterparts. It’s often a strictly technocratic regime that can affect the public greatly but is done without its active knowledge or participation.”

If we are to end the militarization of U.S. law enforcement, one of the most important parts of that will be stopping the training of police by the Israeli military and intelligence apparatus. We do not want their methods of repression and brutality replicated here.

Funny but I wonder how many who either like or share this have ever visited Israel? They have more restraint than the majority of countries in the world when it comes to what they will tolerate. Sorry but this is an epic fail and just more anti-Semitic propaganda.

I think the question would be “I wonder how many have ever visited Palestine”, as Israel live under Israeli law, Palestinians live under Israeli military occupation. They show little restraint, murdering and kidnapping thousands of adults and children, an American citizen experiencing this brutality just a year or two ago. They also test weapons on these people, which they sell to the U.S. military.

Funny but I wonder how many who either like or share this have ever visited Israel? They have more restraint than the majority of countries in the world when it comes to what they will tolerate. Sorry but this is an epic fail and just more anti-Semitic propaganda.

I think the question would be “I wonder how many have ever visited Palestine”, as Israel live under Israeli law, Palestinians live under Israeli military occupation. They show little restraint, murdering and kidnapping thousands of adults and children, an American citizen experiencing this brutality just a year or two ago. They also test weapons on these people, which they sell to the U.S. military.

Funny but I wonder how many who either like or share this have ever visited Israel? They have more restraint than the majority of countries in the world when it comes to what they will tolerate. Sorry but this is an epic fail and just more anti-Semitic propaganda.

I think the question would be “I wonder how many have ever visited Palestine”, as Israel live under Israeli law, Palestinians live under Israeli military occupation. They show little restraint, murdering and kidnapping thousands of adults and children, an American citizen experiencing this brutality just a year or two ago. They also test weapons on these people, which they sell to the U.S. military.

Funny but I wonder how many who either like or share this have ever visited Israel? They have more restraint than the majority of countries in the world when it comes to what they will tolerate. Sorry but this is an epic fail and just more anti-Semitic propaganda.

I think the question would be “I wonder how many have ever visited Palestine”, as Israel live under Israeli law, Palestinians live under Israeli military occupation. They show little restraint, murdering and kidnapping thousands of adults and children, an American citizen experiencing this brutality just a year or two ago. They also test weapons on these people, which they sell to the U.S. military.

Funny but I wonder how many who either like or share this have ever visited Israel? They have more restraint than the majority of countries in the world when it comes to what they will tolerate. Sorry but this is an epic fail and just more anti-Semitic propaganda.

I think the question would be “I wonder how many have ever visited Palestine”, as Israel live under Israeli law, Palestinians live under Israeli military occupation. They show little restraint, murdering and kidnapping thousands of adults and children, an American citizen experiencing this brutality just a year or two ago. They also test weapons on these people, which they sell to the U.S. military.

I have some family connected with police and they say if you don’t do anything ….. I say stop right there you are not a NATIVE kid with long hair in Seattle either are you. 1971 lets see how far you can run chief we are going to follow you and if you even look back your going to get a beating.

I have some family connected with police and they say if you don’t do anything ….. I say stop right there you are not a NATIVE kid with long hair in Seattle either are you. 1971 lets see how far you can run chief we are going to follow you and if you even look back your going to get a beating.

I have some family connected with police and they say if you don’t do anything ….. I say stop right there you are not a NATIVE kid with long hair in Seattle either are you. 1971 lets see how far you can run chief we are going to follow you and if you even look back your going to get a beating.

I have some family connected with police and they say if you don’t do anything ….. I say stop right there you are not a NATIVE kid with long hair in Seattle either are you. 1971 lets see how far you can run chief we are going to follow you and if you even look back your going to get a beating.

I have some family connected with police and they say if you don’t do anything ….. I say stop right there you are not a NATIVE kid with long hair in Seattle either are you. 1971 lets see how far you can run chief we are going to follow you and if you even look back your going to get a beating.

It doesn’t make sense for our police to learn from their police when they both have very different domestic environments to serve and protect but that doesn’t mean Israel is to blame for teaching Krav Maga when a jerk with a badge in the USA decides to use martial arts against a civilian it’s the same as using a knight stick or pepper spray but we don’t get mad at the manufacturer of either because it’s the individual in question who used poor judgement. TL:DR American cops are notoriously hot headed anyway so blaming Israel or anyone but that cops parents is just an attempt to direct your anger where it can’t solve anything

It doesn’t make sense for our police to learn from their police when they both have very different domestic environments to serve and protect but that doesn’t mean Israel is to blame for teaching Krav Maga when a jerk with a badge in the USA decides to use martial arts against a civilian it’s the same as using a knight stick or pepper spray but we don’t get mad at the manufacturer of either because it’s the individual in question who used poor judgement. TL:DR American cops are notoriously hot headed anyway so blaming Israel or anyone but that cops parents is just an attempt to direct your anger where it can’t solve anything

It doesn’t make sense for our police to learn from their police when they both have very different domestic environments to serve and protect but that doesn’t mean Israel is to blame for teaching Krav Maga when a jerk with a badge in the USA decides to use martial arts against a civilian it’s the same as using a knight stick or pepper spray but we don’t get mad at the manufacturer of either because it’s the individual in question who used poor judgement. TL:DR American cops are notoriously hot headed anyway so blaming Israel or anyone but that cops parents is just an attempt to direct your anger where it can’t solve anything

It doesn’t make sense for our police to learn from their police when they both have very different domestic environments to serve and protect but that doesn’t mean Israel is to blame for teaching Krav Maga when a jerk with a badge in the USA decides to use martial arts against a civilian it’s the same as using a knight stick or pepper spray but we don’t get mad at the manufacturer of either because it’s the individual in question who used poor judgement. TL:DR American cops are notoriously hot headed anyway so blaming Israel or anyone but that cops parents is just an attempt to direct your anger where it can’t solve anything

It doesn’t make sense for our police to learn from their police when they both have very different domestic environments to serve and protect but that doesn’t mean Israel is to blame for teaching Krav Maga when a jerk with a badge in the USA decides to use martial arts against a civilian it’s the same as using a knight stick or pepper spray but we don’t get mad at the manufacturer of either because it’s the individual in question who used poor judgement. TL:DR American cops are notoriously hot headed anyway so blaming Israel or anyone but that cops parents is just an attempt to direct your anger where it can’t solve anything

It’s called Krav Maga and you can learn it here in the US. It’s deadly and focused on maiming or killing your opponent. It was created to kill terrorists in hand-to-hand combat, not in killing a citizen suspected of a crime.

It’s called Krav Maga and you can learn it here in the US. It’s deadly and focused on maiming or killing your opponent. It was created to kill terrorists in hand-to-hand combat, not in killing a citizen suspected of a crime.

It’s called Krav Maga and you can learn it here in the US. It’s deadly and focused on maiming or killing your opponent. It was created to kill terrorists in hand-to-hand combat, not in killing a citizen suspected of a crime.

It’s called Krav Maga and you can learn it here in the US. It’s deadly and focused on maiming or killing your opponent. It was created to kill terrorists in hand-to-hand combat, not in killing a citizen suspected of a crime.

It’s called Krav Maga and you can learn it here in the US. It’s deadly and focused on maiming or killing your opponent. It was created to kill terrorists in hand-to-hand combat, not in killing a citizen suspected of a crime.

Hey it makes since for a bunch of people to get fucked up but i guess that make sence to some. Just get the popcorn and coke ready. They r not learning ways to help but ways for more brutality. Don’t take a rocket scientist to figure there no good asses out.

I got pulled over Saturday night was a week ago and the cop was as friendly as he could be. Let me go with a warning for not having a tag on my utility trailer. There are some bad ones in this town as well. If you act a fool and argue with them on the side of the road you are just stupid. Record that shit and keep your mouth shut is the wise thing to do.

Hey it makes since for a bunch of people to get fucked up but i guess that make sence to some. Just get the popcorn and coke ready. They r not learning ways to help but ways for more brutality. Don’t take a rocket scientist to figure there no good asses out.

I got pulled over Saturday night was a week ago and the cop was as friendly as he could be. Let me go with a warning for not having a tag on my utility trailer. There are some bad ones in this town as well. If you act a fool and argue with them on the side of the road you are just stupid. Record that shit and keep your mouth shut is the wise thing to do.

Hey it makes since for a bunch of people to get fucked up but i guess that make sence to some. Just get the popcorn and coke ready. They r not learning ways to help but ways for more brutality. Don’t take a rocket scientist to figure there no good asses out.

I got pulled over Saturday night was a week ago and the cop was as friendly as he could be. Let me go with a warning for not having a tag on my utility trailer. There are some bad ones in this town as well. If you act a fool and argue with them on the side of the road you are just stupid. Record that shit and keep your mouth shut is the wise thing to do.

Hey it makes since for a bunch of people to get fucked up but i guess that make sence to some. Just get the popcorn and coke ready. They r not learning ways to help but ways for more brutality. Don’t take a rocket scientist to figure there no good asses out.

I got pulled over Saturday night was a week ago and the cop was as friendly as he could be. Let me go with a warning for not having a tag on my utility trailer. There are some bad ones in this town as well. If you act a fool and argue with them on the side of the road you are just stupid. Record that shit and keep your mouth shut is the wise thing to do.

Hey it makes since for a bunch of people to get fucked up but i guess that make sence to some. Just get the popcorn and coke ready. They r not learning ways to help but ways for more brutality. Don’t take a rocket scientist to figure there no good asses out.

I got pulled over Saturday night was a week ago and the cop was as friendly as he could be. Let me go with a warning for not having a tag on my utility trailer. There are some bad ones in this town as well. If you act a fool and argue with them on the side of the road you are just stupid. Record that shit and keep your mouth shut is the wise thing to do.

The free thought project?
More like the free propagandist.
All you do is fan the flames with this crap!
Whens the last time you reported something amazing that a cop did???
The majority of your posts are about bad cops and bad cops are far outnumbered by good cops.
Makes me wonder if “the free thought project” has alterior motives

The free thought project?
More like the free propagandist.
All you do is fan the flames with this crap!
Whens the last time you reported something amazing that a cop did???
The majority of your posts are about bad cops and bad cops are far outnumbered by good cops.
Makes me wonder if “the free thought project” has alterior motives

The free thought project?
More like the free propagandist.
All you do is fan the flames with this crap!
Whens the last time you reported something amazing that a cop did???
The majority of your posts are about bad cops and bad cops are far outnumbered by good cops.
Makes me wonder if “the free thought project” has alterior motives

The free thought project?
More like the free propagandist.
All you do is fan the flames with this crap!
Whens the last time you reported something amazing that a cop did???
The majority of your posts are about bad cops and bad cops are far outnumbered by good cops.
Makes me wonder if “the free thought project” has alterior motives

The free thought project?
More like the free propagandist.
All you do is fan the flames with this crap!
Whens the last time you reported something amazing that a cop did???
The majority of your posts are about bad cops and bad cops are far outnumbered by good cops.
Makes me wonder if “the free thought project” has alterior motives

Nonsense propaganda that has been proven false. The Israeli police aren’t my police firstly. Secondly, if you all weren’t running around beheading people and destroying priceless pieces of human history & engaging in terrorism the world over. It would be easier to view you as victims.

Nonsense propaganda that has been proven false. The Israeli police aren’t my police firstly. Secondly, if you all weren’t running around beheading people and destroying priceless pieces of human history & engaging in terrorism the world over. It would be easier to view you as victims.

Nonsense propaganda that has been proven false. The Israeli police aren’t my police firstly. Secondly, if you all weren’t running around beheading people and destroying priceless pieces of human history & engaging in terrorism the world over. It would be easier to view you as victims.

Nonsense propaganda that has been proven false. The Israeli police aren’t my police firstly. Secondly, if you all weren’t running around beheading people and destroying priceless pieces of human history & engaging in terrorism the world over. It would be easier to view you as victims.

Nonsense propaganda that has been proven false. The Israeli police aren’t my police firstly. Secondly, if you all weren’t running around beheading people and destroying priceless pieces of human history & engaging in terrorism the world over. It would be easier to view you as victims.

seriously … the pigs have to be groomed … for that shit … LOL … I think its more of a brainwashing the pigs to be anesthetized to be human at all .. cause many pigs act like subhuman animals … its a 2 way street …. I wonder if they taught them that.

seriously … the pigs have to be groomed … for that shit … LOL … I think its more of a brainwashing the pigs to be anesthetized to be human at all .. cause many pigs act like subhuman animals … its a 2 way street …. I wonder if they taught them that.

seriously … the pigs have to be groomed … for that shit … LOL … I think its more of a brainwashing the pigs to be anesthetized to be human at all .. cause many pigs act like subhuman animals … its a 2 way street …. I wonder if they taught them that.

seriously … the pigs have to be groomed … for that shit … LOL … I think its more of a brainwashing the pigs to be anesthetized to be human at all .. cause many pigs act like subhuman animals … its a 2 way street …. I wonder if they taught them that.

seriously … the pigs have to be groomed … for that shit … LOL … I think its more of a brainwashing the pigs to be anesthetized to be human at all .. cause many pigs act like subhuman animals … its a 2 way street …. I wonder if they taught them that.

Father Abraham had a first born son. Do you understand what is going on in Israel now? Arabs are the lineage of the first born son of Abraham. Since his inception arabs have wanted what God Gave the second born son. I dont care about the lies you and your kind have put forth since than. Israel is the most free country in the mid east. Arabs have more rights in Israel than they have in any arab country

Father Abraham had a first born son. Do you understand what is going on in Israel now? Arabs are the lineage of the first born son of Abraham. Since his inception arabs have wanted what God Gave the second born son. I dont care about the lies you and your kind have put forth since than. Israel is the most free country in the mid east. Arabs have more rights in Israel than they have in any arab country

Father Abraham had a first born son. Do you understand what is going on in Israel now? Arabs are the lineage of the first born son of Abraham. Since his inception arabs have wanted what God Gave the second born son. I dont care about the lies you and your kind have put forth since than. Israel is the most free country in the mid east. Arabs have more rights in Israel than they have in any arab country

Father Abraham had a first born son. Do you understand what is going on in Israel now? Arabs are the lineage of the first born son of Abraham. Since his inception arabs have wanted what God Gave the second born son. I dont care about the lies you and your kind have put forth since than. Israel is the most free country in the mid east. Arabs have more rights in Israel than they have in any arab country

Father Abraham had a first born son. Do you understand what is going on in Israel now? Arabs are the lineage of the first born son of Abraham. Since his inception arabs have wanted what God Gave the second born son. I dont care about the lies you and your kind have put forth since than. Israel is the most free country in the mid east. Arabs have more rights in Israel than they have in any arab country

If this is true than it’s sickening and the ones that sent them over needs to be arrested and a investigation needs to be started. I understand through my own investigation that criminals have been infiltrated into several police departments . But since we can’t trust anyone in authority how are we ever going to get a satisfying ending to corruption . I know in the Bible it says that when God put Satan in charge of the planet and humans that he had told Satan he would never interfere until his ( Satan) time as ruler of the Earth was up . Well I’m calling on God to make Satans rule come to an end immediately . It’s time God does his evaluations on every human and do what he said he would do . If you don’t know what that is I suggest you read Revelations and a few other chapters of the Bible and ask for forgiveness and welcome God or whoever your name for the Devine Being is to welcome you and to take him unto you . No human can stop this continuos horrific path we are all on , we need to all have faith in whoever we believe in and ask for their help . Amen ❤️

If this is true than it’s sickening and the ones that sent them over needs to be arrested and a investigation needs to be started. I understand through my own investigation that criminals have been infiltrated into several police departments . But since we can’t trust anyone in authority how are we ever going to get a satisfying ending to corruption . I know in the Bible it says that when God put Satan in charge of the planet and humans that he had told Satan he would never interfere until his ( Satan) time as ruler of the Earth was up . Well I’m calling on God to make Satans rule come to an end immediately . It’s time God does his evaluations on every human and do what he said he would do . If you don’t know what that is I suggest you read Revelations and a few other chapters of the Bible and ask for forgiveness and welcome God or whoever your name for the Devine Being is to welcome you and to take him unto you . No human can stop this continuos horrific path we are all on , we need to all have faith in whoever we believe in and ask for their help . Amen ❤️

If this is true than it’s sickening and the ones that sent them over needs to be arrested and a investigation needs to be started. I understand through my own investigation that criminals have been infiltrated into several police departments . But since we can’t trust anyone in authority how are we ever going to get a satisfying ending to corruption . I know in the Bible it says that when God put Satan in charge of the planet and humans that he had told Satan he would never interfere until his ( Satan) time as ruler of the Earth was up . Well I’m calling on God to make Satans rule come to an end immediately . It’s time God does his evaluations on every human and do what he said he would do . If you don’t know what that is I suggest you read Revelations and a few other chapters of the Bible and ask for forgiveness and welcome God or whoever your name for the Devine Being is to welcome you and to take him unto you . No human can stop this continuos horrific path we are all on , we need to all have faith in whoever we believe in and ask for their help . Amen ❤️

If this is true than it’s sickening and the ones that sent them over needs to be arrested and a investigation needs to be started. I understand through my own investigation that criminals have been infiltrated into several police departments . But since we can’t trust anyone in authority how are we ever going to get a satisfying ending to corruption . I know in the Bible it says that when God put Satan in charge of the planet and humans that he had told Satan he would never interfere until his ( Satan) time as ruler of the Earth was up . Well I’m calling on God to make Satans rule come to an end immediately . It’s time God does his evaluations on every human and do what he said he would do . If you don’t know what that is I suggest you read Revelations and a few other chapters of the Bible and ask for forgiveness and welcome God or whoever your name for the Devine Being is to welcome you and to take him unto you . No human can stop this continuos horrific path we are all on , we need to all have faith in whoever we believe in and ask for their help . Amen ❤️

If this is true than it’s sickening and the ones that sent them over needs to be arrested and a investigation needs to be started. I understand through my own investigation that criminals have been infiltrated into several police departments . But since we can’t trust anyone in authority how are we ever going to get a satisfying ending to corruption . I know in the Bible it says that when God put Satan in charge of the planet and humans that he had told Satan he would never interfere until his ( Satan) time as ruler of the Earth was up . Well I’m calling on God to make Satans rule come to an end immediately . It’s time God does his evaluations on every human and do what he said he would do . If you don’t know what that is I suggest you read Revelations and a few other chapters of the Bible and ask for forgiveness and welcome God or whoever your name for the Devine Being is to welcome you and to take him unto you . No human can stop this continuos horrific path we are all on , we need to all have faith in whoever we believe in and ask for their help . Amen ❤️

STFU and quit hating on the police. If it weren’t for the Blue there would be nothing between the savages on the street that would rape, pillage and burn everything that peaceful people value and the rest of us that were taught by our parents to respect others and treat them like we want to be treated. This shameful trash is insulting to everyone that has a relative that lays their lives on the line everyday they go to work to protect even douches like you. Go live in Syria or Iraq for awhile asshole and watch how quickly you will come to miss the people that keep law and order.

STFU and quit hating on the police. If it weren’t for the Blue there would be nothing between the savages on the street that would rape, pillage and burn everything that peaceful people value and the rest of us that were taught by our parents to respect others and treat them like we want to be treated. This shameful trash is insulting to everyone that has a relative that lays their lives on the line everyday they go to work to protect even douches like you. Go live in Syria or Iraq for awhile asshole and watch how quickly you will come to miss the people that keep law and order.

STFU and quit hating on the police. If it weren’t for the Blue there would be nothing between the savages on the street that would rape, pillage and burn everything that peaceful people value and the rest of us that were taught by our parents to respect others and treat them like we want to be treated. This shameful trash is insulting to everyone that has a relative that lays their lives on the line everyday they go to work to protect even douches like you. Go live in Syria or Iraq for awhile asshole and watch how quickly you will come to miss the people that keep law and order.

STFU and quit hating on the police. If it weren’t for the Blue there would be nothing between the savages on the street that would rape, pillage and burn everything that peaceful people value and the rest of us that were taught by our parents to respect others and treat them like we want to be treated. This shameful trash is insulting to everyone that has a relative that lays their lives on the line everyday they go to work to protect even douches like you. Go live in Syria or Iraq for awhile asshole and watch how quickly you will come to miss the people that keep law and order.

It all makes sense if you look at it like a chess game….hhmm i wonder what their next move will be after giving our local police militarized weapons, vehicles, all forms of tactical gear and then train them to use brutal force….

It all makes sense if you look at it like a chess game….hhmm i wonder what their next move will be after giving our local police militarized weapons, vehicles, all forms of tactical gear and then train them to use brutal force….

relocate? To where?
Find another east Mediterranean coast backed against hill country.
Palestine is their home.
Before the zionists stole their country, most Palestinians were peasant farmers, fishermen, potters, carpenters, weavers and tailors, merchants, etc. They lived close to the graves of their ancestors.
Where can they go? Where else is home for them?

Katrina

Krav Maga is taught widely to the public. This article is attempting to make something of nothing. Police travel to the UK to study their methods of law enforcement also. Bunch of sensationalized bologna! I’ve never read ONE article from free thought project that was close to accurate or truthful.

Did you just read this same article? Krav maga is just one tool of Israel’s brutal repression, other than the swat teams, tear gas, and riot gear ready at a moments notice at protests here in American. Americans have the right to protest, but they are being intimidated by a militarized force that did not exist before they imported Israel’s brutal tactics. Go take a class in reading comprehension before you discount this article in your hasbarista fashion.

Katrina

Our police use their equipment and training for Defense.
Yes, Americans have the right to Protest – NOT Riot.
And if a 13 year old attacks police, they have a right and duty to defend against that attack.

Prochristianamerican

Katrina; what do Christian Churches do to attack Israelis that you have to burn them to defend Judaism?

The more Zionists defend murdering American military, attempting to murder American diplomats and persecute Palestinian Christians; the bond Israelis show the bond Judaism Zionist style shares with radical Islam

Dead American military as just as dead whether Jews massacre them; or Jidahists do

Interesting partnership the Israeli people have formed with Islamists

ASDeckard

Oh look, some bigot thinks all Jews are Zionists.

You may want to check the numbers though: you can almost count the number of Americans killed by Zionists in the last decade on your fingers. Try that with just Baathists.

Prochristianamerican

Always Israelis say when they murder humans; it is nothing. That is why Israelis defend massacring American military as their right. Just as they murdered American military, attempted to murder American diplomats and persecute Christians in Palestine; so do their partners Al Quada and hezbollah

Interesting partnership Israelis share with radical Islamists

d marino

It is now 2016 and America is showing the police brutality in droves. Are you happy now you disgusting pigs of the government establishment? Is that your intent? A complete riot on every street due to your police state USA?

sai

Terrible idea to get training from such a brutal, racist, terrorist, Apartheid state.

The Palestinians have literally been propagandizing their children to attack Israeli’s. Not just soldiers, but citizens too. And not just Israeli’s, but all Jews. Check the Pew polls: it’s literally an entire ‘nation’ of people who want to lead a genocide.

Not even at the highs of the Nazi’s power did literally 93% of Germans think leading a genocide would be a good idea. Even the Nazi’s were objectively and measurably less anti-Semitic than Palestinians are.

Seriously, go sit down in and watch what the Palestinians are teaching their children in basically any class. It’s not hard to find, and you can always go in person (unless you’re gay: they actively sentence homosexuals to death there).

Raid

looks like they are stressed, desperate, caused by you (Israel) for many years always attacking civillian, they know very well what you do there

Whoah! 300 policemen! Out of 1.1 million police. And this the headline refers to as “routine training”!

Kim Shai Harper

Presumably the officers who take part in overseas training are leaders in their departments. #15/15/70 In a militaristic cohort, a small number of adherents to a discipline or philosophy can have an outsized effect. The good news is this is also true when leaders are dedicated to a philosophy of de-escalation and community based policing. They’re not going get that kind of training from the military police in Israel.

You have a point. Is there a breakdown of the 300 in these terms? And what were they there for? To learn krav maga? To secure sites from terrorist intrusion? Or, as the critics of the programs would have it, learning Israeli tactics in dealing with Palestinians, which fall far below the principles upheld (in principle) in the US. Is there a relationship between police receiving Israeli training and outbreaks of police brutality? It shouldn’t be that hard to do the research.

Maybe we can learn more by sending our police to Canada or the UK.

Robert Skinner

Petition to the white house
Make it illegal to send American police to Israel for training.
Israel is a country engaged in illegal Settlements in violation of the 4th Geneva convention article 49 that America and Israel signed. Having our police trained by an illegal brutal occupation force that has a history of crimes against humanity is a contributing factor in police reacting to law abiding people as if they are an enemy combatant.

So, because a police officer used krav maga, it is because of Israel? If an officer uses judo, or karate that must mean Japan is at fault. If kung fu, then China. Much like judo, karate and other martial arts krav maga is taught all around the US in private academies.

Of the one million US police personnel how many actually trained in Israel? The article does not say. Is it 100? 1,000? 10,000? 500,000? The article does not say. The best you can do is infer a contention, but you don’t back it up with any data.

As for law enforcement exchange programs with other countries, US police also train with Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Colombia, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kazakhstan, The Netherlands, UK and many others. But, of course, singling out Israel is simple, that is to say, a simple explanation for simple minds.

Matthew Smith

There are certain groups within any population that is at odds with, and fights with the establishment, and the establishment will control them. The real question is what percentage of the population still supports the status quo /establishment, and wants these groups controlled.

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